When a caterpillar begins metamorphosis, dormant imaginal cells suddenly activate. Each carries a Crisis Code, a set of protocols that do not conform to the structure of the caterpillar. The dissolving caterpillar perceives a crisis and attacks these cells as foreign invaders. But the cells persist, find each other, and birth an entirely new creation. The imaginal cells hold a piece of the blueprint for navigating the caterpillar crisis and eventual transformation.

Humanity entered its own metamorphosis in the 2020s. You sense it everywhere: failing institutions, collapsing certainties, everything about to change. You’re carrying one or more Crisis Codes for humanity’s transformation — those uncomfortable truths you can’t ignore, but the system rejects.

The contradictions that keep you awake. The urgent knowing that something is breaking. The vision of what could be. A deep desire for non-conformity. Business-as-Usual attacks or rejects these insights precisely because they threaten what’s ‘normal.’ But like imaginal cells, your Crisis Codes contain protocols our species desperately needs for navigating crisis.

This book is about putting your Crisis Codes to work, in service of others rattled by the process unfolding.